In the previous posts, I have been sharing my Insights Into Freedom Video Series where I talk about my personal and professional experiences, both good and bad, that have allowed me to reach the ultimate freedom that I am enjoying in my life now.

We all have models or systems that we follow. They may have been a product of our own experience, or a model we copied from someone else, or a system that came out of different other models.

Here in the third video of the series, I share about a financial model that I pursued in my younger years. I reveal why I call it a “Shooting Star” model and why it is not the best path to tread if you desire long-term financial freedom.

I’d be glad to hear about the models that you follow in your own personal life and business and how we can gain insights from your own experiences. Please leave your comments below; let’s interact.

Transcript Of Today’s Video

I’ve learned a number of lessons throughout my life and I want to share with you how you can apply those lessons and get ultimate freedom in your life.

Inside the previous videos, I’ve talked about the Power of Repetition and the Need to be Number One, and making sure that you don’t get arrogant.

Inside this video, I want to share with you a financial model or this freedom model that I was following while I was a teenager.

The model was really what I call the “shooting star model” where you do everything to become famous and successful. It looks something like this: it has a curve that goes up and as you gain exposure and become more famous, things just start growing and growing and you get pretty successful and get to the top. So much like a shooting star.

Then you get an injury or something happens or you become unpopular or whatever it is; and your popularity goes down. Exactly like a shooting star — it goes up and it goes down.

Your financial situation will follow a similar path. It will have a bit of a lagging effect, but it’ll also go up and up and then go down and down again.

What I’m trying to say here is that, yes, the shooting star model is okay for the short term, but really if you’re thinking about long term freedom, the shooting star model is not exactly a great model. It’s not a great way for long term freedom.

As I go through this series, I’ll share with you some more financial models that I pursued as a youngster or as a younger person, at least, (I’m still young…) that I thought was good at that time; now looking back, I can truly say that they were not the best sort of models for the long term freedom.

That’s it for this one… Think about your own situation. Are you involved in a shooting star type of business model? You need to think about how you can change that so that it becomes more of a long term success model. Throughout this video series, all of this will become a lot more clearer.

Thanks for watching. I look forward to seeing you inside the next video where I’ll talk about my university days and some of the key insights that I learned during those days.

About Gideon Shalwick

Gideon Shalwick is a YouTube and video marketing expert, and has figured out how to get a TON of attention using online video (with one YouTube channel reaching 10 million views!), and today, he's built a following of over 100,000 people for his business ventures, and 60,000+ people on this very blog, where he shares some of his most powerful video marketing strategies.

Gideon, I normally like your videos. Most of them have had something useful. But I don’t like this series of videos as I find them way too basic and not providing much of a takeaway. In my opinion, the videos you’ve done in the past have been much bettter (in terms of value).

Gideon, The Freedom Series doesn’t have the same flavor as your other videos in terms of content and takeaway. I get the feeling you are exploring other topics and are not sure about it yourself. You seem to look down towards the ground a lot.

What I like is the text portion of the posts. The depth of concept is there, but not the execution. It’s like you are not sure how much you want to share about yourself, so you are vague.